Tammy Bruce: Lifting the covers on ‘Obamoogle’"The FTC, responding to an open-records request, accidentally sent 160 pages of a private 2012 report to the The Wall Street Journal, detailing their antitrust investigation into Google." [rdbrewer]

The Sun: Load of hot heir"Prince Charles begged people to save energy by switching off their lights — then jumped in a helicopter to travel just 80 miles." More importantly, he gave me an excuse to use that awesome photoshop. [rdbrewer]

This guy's gonna be big in America! Big, I tell ya! Jon Stewart's replacement, Trevor Noah, is an unfunny one-trick pony, and that one trick seems to be a dislike for, well, you and me. And, just possibly, Jews as well. [NDH]

Jared Meyer: Put The Squeeze On Operation Choke Point"Under Operation Choke Point, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, a major player, uses its regulatory powers to intimidate banks into cutting off financial ties with businesses that the government views unfavorably." [rdbrewer]

Paula Bolyard: I’m Only Going to Do Business in States That Support the First Amendment From Now On"Apple CEO Tim Cook wrote in a Washington Post editorial that the new law says 'individuals can cite their personal religious beliefs to refuse service to a customer or resist a state nondiscrimination law.' That’s a complete fabrication and the Washington Post allowed him to get away with it. You will not find one word in the law that allows someone to refuse service to a customer." Via @EdDriscoll. [rdbrewer]

Video: Show Me the MonetA British TV show. I don't like the host or the judges, but I like the idea. It's like American Idol for art. There should be an American version with some excellent, hard-hitting judges. [rdbrewer]

The Reid-Obama Bargain"Harry shut down the Senate because Barack shut down the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada.... The Senate Minority Leader has arguably done more than anyone other than President Obama to set up the Republican Party to run the government in 2017." [rdbrewer]

Gabriel Malor: Your Questions On Indiana’s Religious Freedom Bill, Answered"This past week, journalistic abuse has exploded into controversy over an innocuous religious freedom law in Indiana. This law, known as a Religious Freedom Restoration Act or RFRA (pronounced 'riff-ra'), tracks the language of the 1993 federal RFRA signed into law by President Clinton after a 97-3 vote in the Senate. But you would not necessarily know how innocuous it is from news media coverage. According to what you might hear in the news, this is an anti-gay law that is 'almost universally loathed,' and which a White House official suggested would 'legitimize discrimination.' ¶ Indiana’s RFRA has none of these characteristics." [rdbrewer]

Michael Goodwin: Obama’s race to chaos"Close your eyes and imagine that those countries and terrorists have nuclear weapons. Imagine their barbarism going nuclear as they blow up cities, wipe out ethnic and religious groups and turn the region into cinders." [rdbrewer]

Glenn Reynolds, USA Today: You are probably breaking the law right now"'Regulatory crimes' of this sort are incredibly numerous and a category that is growing quickly. They are the ones likely to trap unwary individuals into being felons without knowing it. That is why Michael Cottone, in a just-published Tennessee Law Review article, suggests that maybe the old presumption that individuals know the law is outdated, unfair and maybe even unconstitutional.... Amusingly, government officials who break the law do get to plead ignorance and good intentions, under the doctrine of good faith 'qualified immunity.' Just not us proles." [rdbrewer]

Radley Balko: Absurd Fourth Circuit ruling embodies everything that’s wrong with drug raidsA guy got shot in the face for no reason. Before the American Revolution, "British soldiers could serve warrants only during the day. And they were always required to knock, announce themselves, announce their purpose and give the resident time and opportunity to come to the door to let them in peacefully." So even then colonists had more protections. Now we have goons who opt for no-knock raids because Its Fun!!! And there's probably a little bonus pay involved, right? [rdbrewer]

CJ Ciaramella: Criminal Justice Reform Movement Gaining Momentum"'There is a growing consensus across the political spectrum that our criminal justice system is in need of reform,' Goodlatte said in his video statement. 'The issue of over-criminalization is an issue of liberty.'" Grassley is in the way. "Gingrich said he is confident that Grassley can be assuaged, and that the current alliance between the younger, libertarian wing of the Republican caucus and progressive Democrats will continue to widen." [rdbrewer]

Jonathan Last: The Campus Left Begins to Implode"[W]e may be witnessing the first dawning realization on the left about the problems inherent in their movement. Allow me to present three pieces, each from a liberal looking at contemporary campus politics." [rdbrewer]

Obamacare flying machine begins a death spiral"Premiums are rising rapidly and the young and healthy are bailing out." It happened before. "Eight states learned this the hard way in the 1990s when they enacted two policies known as 'community rating' and 'guaranteed issue,' requiring health insurers to sell coverage...." [rdbrewer]

Meet Chuck Schumer, One of the Most Trivial Pols Ever. And Your Next Senate Minority Leader"Which brings us back to Chuck Schumer, our next Senate Minority Leader and a demonstrated foe of just about every possible innovation or reality that for whatever furshlugginer reason drives a bug up his ass. Including that time he called a flight attendant 'a bitch' because she was enforcing a cell phone ban that I'm sure he's totally in favor of for everyone else." [rdbrewer]